PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Cassandra Snipes
AU  - Alexandros Maragakis
AU  - William O’Donohue
TI  - Team-based stepped care in integrated delivery settings
AID  - 10.15212/FMCH.2015.0101
DP  - 2015 Mar 01
TA  - Family Medicine and Community Health
PG  - 39--46
VI  - 3
IP  - 1
4099  - http://fmch.bmj.com/content/3/1/39.short
4100  - http://fmch.bmj.com/content/3/1/39.full
SO  - Fam Med Com Health2015 Mar 01; 3
AB  - Fragmented health care delivery is recognized as increasingly problematic. Integrated care has been advanced as a reform that will improve quality of care and lower costs. Despite the application of integrated care systems in the United States, there has been a limited amount of empirical work explicating the most effective health care pathways. Stepped care has been proposed as a framework by which to implement coordinated team-based care and has gained preliminary empirical support. In this manuscript a rationale for team-based stepped care is presented, tools for implementation are provided, and future research directions are suggested.